In addition, to have the same quality of life in China or other "developing" countries is much more expensive than the simple comparisons.
The American has enough money to take the family on the annual pilgrimage to Disneyland or Dollywood. The American has a car with A/C and an automatic transmission, shops at grocery stores that source produce and goods globally, and can have four bathrooms with potable water in its house.
To do the same in India, China, etc., you're not making it happen on the $800 per project unless you have a farm of people living in their grandparents' house and riding a bicycle made of cast iron and bamboo to get rice and something to "flavor" it.
The American has enough money to take the family on the annual pilgrimage to Disneyland or Dollywood. The American has a car with A/C and an automatic transmission, shops at grocery stores that source produce and goods globally, and can have four bathrooms with potable water in its house.
To do the same in India, China, etc., you're not making it happen on the $800 per project unless you have a farm of people living in their grandparents' house and riding a bicycle made of cast iron and bamboo to get rice and something to "flavor" it.